WAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER in. 104 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEflW~nAv.. ?'JflV mwu In 1o~& ii - - - A. --.-- -, -. ,W VaJ 1AaJLPaJE ..,IVYaW09 r12 'U' SYMPHONY SOLOIST: Brinkman Traces Career as Pianist By DAVID KAPLAN "The attitude of music students has changed from an aura of ama- teurishness to an increasing gain in seriousness." This thought was expressed by Joseph Brinkman, head of the School of Music's piano depart- ment, as he looked back on his 24 years on campus. Prof. Brinkman, who will appear with the University Symphony Or- chestra on Thursday as featured soloist, noted that during the 19- 34's, there was a less serious type of student. Young Professionals "In those days," Prof. Brinkman said, "many students studied mu- sic for social graces. Today, they are all young professionals, with some hope of a career." "A real indication of their hopes," he explained, "is that with lack of space in the School of Mu- sic, students fight to utilize their evening and Sunday hours to practice in the studios." "That kind of student was not known in my school days," Prof. Brinkman noted, "and it's a fine challenge to the faculty." Prof. Brinkman will play Beet-j hoven's "Emperor Concerto" when he appears with the Symphony Orchestra in Hill Auditorium. During the last 24 years, he has performed with the University Or- chestra on numerous occasions, playing works by* Beethoven, Chausson, Schumann and Bach. He also appeared in the 1932 May Festival. Born in Dubuque Born in Dubuque, Ia., he was graduated from Loras College in his home town and continued his graduate work with Lee Pattison in New York and Chicago. Further graduate work was done under the tutelage of Artur Schnabel in New York and Italy. Prof. Brinkman made his pro- Report Cites 'U'Faculty Dismissals By LOU SAUER Dismissals of Prof. Mark Nicker- son and Prof. Chandler Davis were of major consideration in the Unit- ed States National Students Associ- ation's recent report on national academic freedom. In the report, NSA outlined its views of faculty dismissals. The Association believes that the only grounds on which a profes- sor should be judged are profes- sional competence and integrity. It feels that membership in any totalitarian conspirational group un- favorably affects this competence. No Justifiable Cause However, NSA believes that use of the First and Fifth amendments as reason for not answering ques- tions concerning his views and af- filiations is not in itself justifiable cause for dismissal. Citing examples from other schools, the Association reported the dismissal of three associate professors from Hunter College in New York. Dr. V. Gerald Mc Gill, Dr. Louis Weisner and Dr. Charles W. Hughes were charged with let- ting Communist party membership affect their performance of duty. All three professors maintained that the Communist cell at the Uni- versity was a "study group" and refused to identify other party members. University of Chicago Case At the University of Chicago, a Fulbright scholarship was re- fused Dr. Charlotte Towle for no apparent reason. She is believed to have signed a petition requesting clemency for the Rosenbergs and to have been a member of an or- ganization advocating aid to Span- ish loyalists. The report mentioned several other cases which were believed to limit academic freedom. Quad Head Elected Ralph McCormick, '57E, was elected president of East Quad Council yesterday by acclamation. Former president of Anderson House, McCormick succeeds Ron McCreight, '56, who resigned. Noted Economists To Talk At Rackham Conference A two day conference on "The Economic Outlook" sponsored by ater, will be Harold F. Waite of the economics department and Burroughs Co. of Detroit. featurn m y ti"The International Economic nownedecon m sanationall re - Outlook" will be the subject of 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Rack- Prof. Charles Ramer of the eca- ham Amphitheater. nomics department, who will be the first speaker. Lawrence Bridge Prof. Gardner Ackley, chairman of the United States Department of of the economics department, will Commerce will talk on "Inven- open the conference. tory Outlook for 1955." Jeoffrey Moore of the National The final afternoon session of Bureau of Economic Research in the conference which will start at New York will introduce the topic 2 p.m. in the Rackham Amphithe- "Economic Indicators and the ater, will be'chaired by George J. Economic Outlook." Nicholson of Watling, Lerchen and Discussion following Moore's Co. in Detroit. talk will be led by George Garvy Gerhard Colm of the National of the Federal Reserve Bank of Planning Association will be the New York. A discussion period will final speaker of the Conference follow each speaker. and will talk on "The Outlook for f C f e e f f t i .1 a 4 e r G&S Tickets Tickets for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's Production "Pirates of Penzance" are now on sale in the lobby of the Ad- ministration Bldg. Admission for the Nov. 17 and 18 performances will be 80 cents and 60 cents. Seats for Nov. 19 and 20 cost $1.20 and 90 cents. Sur vey May .Ask Analysis fCollege A selected number of seniors in the literary college may be asked to determine what benefits they received from their college work. At the meeting of the literary college Steering Committee yester- day a questionnaire which would focus around students' intellectual experience in relation to their choice of a major subject was con sidered, according to Joan Bryan, '56, chairman. Questions relating to the students opinions on the size and imperson- ality of the school will also. be in- cluded in the questionnaire that is being prepared by a sub-com- mittee which includes members of the steering committee and the literary college Senior Board. . Plans to have the Survey Re- search Center cooperate in the project were also discussed. Bishop Talks To Feature Lacy Speech Dan Lacy, Managing Director of the American Book Publishers Council, will speak on "Books and Communication; some social im- plications of publishing, booksell- ing and librarianship" at 4 p.m. today in the Rackham Amphithea- ter and tomorrow in Auditorium C, Angell Hall. Third in the William Warner Bishop Lecture series, under the auspices of the Department of Li- brary Science, the lecture will be divided into two parts. The first will be an analysis of the publish- ing industry in terms of the li- brarian's interest. The second will be devoted to the thesis that the communications role played in society by any me- dium of expression is determined by the economic patterns of the creation and distribution of the medium. Rice To Lecture On Drama Society Noted playwright Elmer Rice will speak on "The Drama as a Social Force" at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Auditorium A, Angell Hall. Rice, famous Broadway director and producer, is the English de- partment visiting lecturer this se- mester. -Daily--Lynn Wallas PROF. JOSEPH BRINKMAN OF THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC fessional debut as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra un- der Frederick Stock, appearing many times since with the organi- zation. Before coming to Michigan, Prof. Brinkman taught at the American Conservatory in Chicago. World Premiere Performance Early in 1936, Prof. Brinkman performed the world premiere of Leo Sowerby's "Second Piano Con- certo" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. That December, he re- peated his performance when the Boston Orchestra played in Hill Auditorium during the Choral Un- ion Concert Series. In 1938, Prof. Brinkman appear- ed in Venice, Italy, with Dimitri NSA Group Calls for Student Assistance in Drafting Policy A resolution supporting more stu- dent participation in talks to for- mulate future manpower policy in the United States has been adopted by the National Student Associa- tion Executive Committee. The resolution, representing the official position of the Association, appoints a Military Manpower Study Commission to study "all manpower policies which have been considered and enacted in the past several years." In addition, the Commission is to establish liaison with the Office of Defense Mobilization for assist- PVR op t R A PARSWOOiN L RY cNARigR A ogyouB GO TOGETHER To: Sports Events --- Parties! Convenient, private, amazing- [y low in cost. Try it! _ CollYur ot ,.I...o --- R' .~ A |utf"oy fow ' ~ - - = h~ado eie ance in its study of the manpower situation as it affects draft-age col- lege students. "American students should take a greater responsibility and have a greater opportunity to assist in the determination of policies which affect them so directly in their role as students," said the Execu- tive Committee in its report. In addition the Executive Com- mittee of NSA has recommended a change in the Korean GI Bill of Rights to provide more educational benefits for veterans enrolled in colleges throughout the nation. Noting that the provisions of the Korean Bill "differ substantially" from the World War II Bill, the Committee announced its support for changes in the law to allow half the tuition cost to be paid di- rectly to the school. Under the present Korean Bill, a single veteran receives $110 a month from which all expenses must be met. The World War II Bill allowed a subsistence of $75 per month plus paying all tuition, books and fees. Mitropoulos and the Festival Or- chestra. Playing the Sowerby work, his performance was part of the Inte'national Festival of Contem- porary Music. He has also given solo recitals in New York, Boston, Chicago and many of the major music centers throughout the country. "Prof. Brinkman is considered to be one of the top piano instructors in the country," music school sec- retary James Walace commented. Panel To Discuss Europe Situation "Europe on Either Side of the Iron Curtain" will be the subject of a political science roundtable discussion to be held at 8 p.m. to- morrow in Rackham Amphithe- ater. Participating on the panel will be Prof. James H. Meisel and Ul- rich A. Straus of the political sci- ence department and Zander Hol- lander, '53. Seevers To Speak Prof. Maurice H. Seevers of the pharmacology department will lec- ture today on the "Physiological Effects of Animals Addicted to Drugs." A supplementary film will be shown at the meeting which will be held at 7 p.m. in the Pharma- cology Bldg. ISA To Give Talk "Is co-existence with the Com- munist World Possible?" will be discussed from three points of view at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Inter- national Center. Ulrich A. Strauss, Grad., will represent the United States in the discussion. David Barker, Grad., will take the side of Great Britain while Buddha Govindaraj, Grad., will represent India. a 3 a t z 1 1 Consumer Attitude George Katona of the Survey Research Center will give the sec- ond talk Thursday morning on "Consumer Attitudes and De- mands." The discussion period will be led by Arthur Rosenbaum of Sears and Roebuck, Chicago. First speaker for the afternoon session which begins at 2:30 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheater, will be Prof. Daniel Suits of the eco- nomics department. He will1 speak on "A Statistical Model of Econo- mic Activity as Applied to 1955." "Monetary and Fiscal Policy in 1955" will be the subject of Prof. Paul W. McCracken of the busi- ness administration school and Prof. Richard A. Musgrave of the economics department. Storer to Chairman Robert Storer of Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit, will chairman the afternoon session which will be followed by a dinner at the Union at 7 p.m. Prof. J. Philip Wernette of the Business -Administration school will be chairman of the evening's activities. Dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth, and noted economist Arthur Upgren, will give an after dinner talk on "The Help the New Economy Has for the Business Man." Chairman for the Friday morn- ing session which will begin at 9 a.m. in the Rackham Amphithe- 1955.A general discussion will follow his talk. Library Chief Edits Stories "Captured by Indians" is the title of a new book by Howard H. Peckham, director of the Uni- versity's Clements Library. Published this week the book consists of 14 narratives of Indian captivity, rewritten and condensed from the original accounts. Included among the stories are those by Daniel Boone, Mary Row- landson and Mary Jemison. -# W U .........._ ";i On Cnqa §ulrna 4'Author of "BarefIoo~t Boy With Cheek," -eta.)? DECEMBER AND MAY: ACT I "Arthur Miller and the Man Who Knows" by William Wiegand New stories by Henry Van Dyke, Mark Weingart, Lilia Amansec A children's story with words by Larry Pike and pictures by Stu Ross FICTION..ESSAY ...POETRY...ART I Of all the creatures that inhabit the earth, none is so fair, so warm, so toothsome, as a coed. This is a simple fact, well-known to every campus male, and, to most campus males, a source of rejoicing. But not to all. To some, the creamy brows and twinkling limbs of coeds are a bane and a burden. To whom? To professors, that's whom. Professors, according to latest scientific advice, are human. Stick them and they bleed, pinch them and they hurt, ring a dinner bell and they salivate, comfront them with a round young coed and their ears go back, even as yours and mine. But, by and large, they contain themselves. After all, they are men of high principle and decorum, and besides, the board of regents has got stoolies all over. So, by and large, they contain themselves. But not always. Every now and then a coed will come along who is just too gorgeous to resist, and a professor - his clutch worn out from years of struggle - will slip and fall. White though his hair, multitudinous though his degrees, Phi Beta Kappa though his key, he is as lovesick, moonstruck, and impaled as any freshman. But he's far worse off than any freshman. After all, a freshman can thump his leg, put on his linen duster, and take out after the coed with mad abandon. But what can the poor smitten prof do? How, in his position, can he go courting a young girl undergraduate? In this column and the next one, I am going to deal with this difficult question. I will relate to you, in the form of a two act play, an account of a professor's attempt to woo a coed. The scene is a typical office in a typical liberal arts building on a typical campus. In this shabby setting, we find two men, Professors Twonkey and Phipps. They are lumpy and bent, in the manner of English lit professors. PHIPPS: Twonkey, a terrible thing has happened to me. A terrible, ghastly thing! I've fallen in love with a coed. TWONKEY: Now, npw, that's not so terrible. PHIPPs: Oh, but it is. Miss McFetridge-for that is her name-is a student, a girl of nineteen. How would her parents feel if they knew I was gawking at her and refusing my food and writing her name on frosty windowpanes with my fingernail? TWONKEY: Come now, Phipps, no need to carry on so. You're not the first teacher to cast warm eyes at a coed, you know. PHIPPs: You mean it's happened to you too? TWONKEY: But of course. Many times. PHIPPs: What did you do about it? TWONKEY: Looked at their knees. It never fails, Phipps. No matter how pretty a girl is, her knees are bound to be knobby and bony and the least romantic of objects. PHIPPs: Not Miss McFetridge's-for that is her name. They are soft and round and dimpled. Also pink. TWONKEY: Really? Well, I'll tell you something, Phipps. If I ever found a girl with pink knees, I'd marry her. PHIPPs: It is my fondest wish, but how can I, a professor of fifty, start a courtship with a girl of 19? TWONKEY: Very simple. Ask her to come to your office for a conference late tomorrow afternoon. When she arrives, be urbane, be charming. Ask her to sit dow'n. Give her a cigarette. PHIPPs: A Philip Morris. - TWONKEY: But of course. PHIPPS: I just wanted to be sure you mentioned the name. They're paying for this column. TWONKEY: Give her a Philip Morris. PHIPPS: That's right. TWONKEY: Then light her Philip Morris and light one yourself. Say some frightfully witty things about English lit. Be gay. Be insouciant. Keep her laughing for an hour or so. Then look at your watch. Cry out in surprise that you had no idea it was this.-late. Insist on driving her home. PHIPPs: Yes, yes? TWONKEY: On the way home, drive past that movie house that shows French films. Stop your car, as though on a sudden impulse. Tell her that you've heard the movie was delightfully Gallic and naughty. Ask her if she'd like to see it. PHIPPs: Yes, yes? TWONKEY: After the movie, say to her in a jocular, offhand way I aI I1 CLASSIFIED ADS ARE SURE-FIRE RESULT GETTERS a --whatever your major, you can go on r- to an with Michigan Bell You'll be able to use your college education to full advantage in a telephone career. Michigan Bell's women's management training program prepares you for an important executive position with the telephone company. 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